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Dragon History - Dinosaurs Revealed proof for the bible ? READ?

It wasn't until 1841 that English scientist Richard Owens suggested that the group of "newly discovered" animals be called "dinosaurs," which literally means "terrible lizards." Throughout the next few decades, the first artist depictions of dinosaurs were actually comical when compared to what we can scientifically discern today. How then, do pottery, linens, cave paintings, and written descriptions of "dragons" from 2,000 to 4,000 years ago depict dinosaurs better than what science could muster in the mid-1800's? Where are all these accounts of dragon history? Actually, let's start with the Bible, the most widely published book in history. A search for the word "dragon" in the King James Version of the Bible produces 34 separate matches across 10 different books written between approximately 2000 BC and 90 AD. The word "dragon" (Hebrew: tannin) is used throughout the Old Testament, and most directly translates as "sea or land monsters." In the Book of Job, the author describes the great creatures, Behemoth (Job 40) and Leviathan (Job 41). Although the latest Bible translations use the words elephant, hippo or crocodile instead of Behemoth and Leviathan, the original Hebrew and the context of the descriptions do not allow for these interpretations. Dragon accounts from China, Europe, the Middle East, and ancient Latin America share similar accounts of "dragons" and other beasts.

Public Comments

1. ...And this is your proof?
2. Cite your source. Even Answers in Genesis have asked Creationists to stop making this claim. Use of the word "dragon" is not an accurate depiction of dinosaurs. I thought you said there were cave drawings, pottery? There are many accounts of genies from all over the world. Should we assume that there are wish-granting fairies?
3. Other large animals, like mammoths, existed up untill 10,000 years ago. It's not surprising the Bible talkes about large monsters and dragons, people would have seen the bones.
4. Maybe because the people who drew them actually saw living dinosaurs.
5. Cave paintings? LOL! Name one. ADDENDUM So, from which site are you copying (i.e., plagiarizing)? http://www.dragon-history.com/ or http://www.allaboutcreation.org/dragon-history.htm ? What a twit.
6. Dragons were a family bloodline. Read some more. They were called the Dragon bloodline. Humans.
7. All this proves is that the bible plundered earlier mythologies.
8. If you're interested in that, and it IS very interesting, then check this out on ZENIT: http://www.zenit.org/article-24145?l=english Wow, huh? God bless and Pax Christi+
9. Bible stuff sure is stupid! It's amazing what happens when you take something as weak as the Bible and shove it through a series of logical hoops! I suppose that's the very definition of an absurdity.
10. So if dinosaurs and man lived together, how come there is absolutely no fossil evidence of it, just folklore?
11. I read this before. It was interesting and still is.
12. Lawrence Lamb is rolling in his grave...
13. I take it you've never heard of the K T Boundary? Or the element Iridium? Or the crater in the Yucatan peninsula?
14. You lie, I have studied cave drawings, there are no dinosaurs.